On Wednesday 20 September 2006 02:09, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Haven't tried it - principally because adding YaST installation sources has always seemed too arcane a subject for me. Maybe if I get desperate enough ?!? [I instead use 'smart --gui' (and sometimes 'apt-get') to access 3rd party repositories.]
Hi Mikus, I understand this approach completely, but I've never had a successful GNOME mass update with SUSE... it's always ended up being a 'hunt and peck'. Have you created a test user to see if the pristine GNOME environment it produces also 'hiccups' the same way?
The 10.0 system that is accessible to me at home was almost identical to what you listed. The principal difference was that on my system, 'gnome-panel' and 'gnome-applets' were at the 2.12.2 level (gotten off the gnome repository) whereas yours were at the 2.12.0 level (gotten off the base repository).
This is one of the conflicts I'd forgotten about: I *can't* update gnome-applets because the ensuing rpm database conflict won't resolve. You haven't, by any chance, gotten into the habit of using '--force' with CLI rpm, have you?! I know some users do this to 'overcome' dependencies and conflicts, but <tsk tsk tsk>! if you have! BTW, You can use reset previously ignored conflicts and dependencies (then play . :-)
Thank you, Carl, for your help -- but at the moment I'm still stuck. Tomorrow I'll try fooling around with libwnck.
I never found a solution other than avoiding that particular conflict; ditto gnome-panel. Good luck! Carl